de Cardenas Design Studio was founded on a simple belief: the best rooms are built around the things worth keeping — a found mirror, an inherited chair, a piece pulled from a market stall on a trip abroad.
The work spans the full range, from ground-up builds to a single afternoon of styling — but the process is the same throughout: understand how you actually live, then build (or source, or restrain) around that.
Based in Los Angeles, working locally and by project nationwide.
Every project starts with how you actually use a space, not a mood board.
New pieces where they earn their place, vintage and antique where they add character.
Restraint is a design decision. Not every surface needs something on it.